do you remember your first time...

CrazyRabbit · 16-01-2010 10:43PM

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Total addict ever since, spend a very large portion of my life online now, currently have 7 tabs open between various forums, etc. (I don't like Eastenders!):p

Only 7 tabs? I have 3 browsers open with at least 20 tabs open in each!

I actually can't remember the first thing I did on the web. Probably a search from the Oceanfree search site or something.

Risteard · 16-01-2010 10:44PM

I didn't have Sky Sports so my first web experiences was looking up the results from WWF Raw. That and looking up how to breed a golden chocobo and getting the Ultimate weapons on FF7. Thems were the days.

OutlawPete · 16-01-2010 11:06PM

It was 1997 and I went into an internet cafe on George's St and it cost £10 an hour.

I specifically went in to look up two things.

One was to find out how Gary Holton (from Auf Wiedersehen Pet) died.

Seems strange now, but there was no way of finding something like that out back then. You could go to library I suppose but that would have taken ages

The other reason was to see Drew Barrymore's Playboy pics.

Lockstep · 16-01-2010 11:08PM

I rememebr using a bizarre websearcher called webferret which didn';t tell you what you were clicking; you'd type stuff in and then it'd appear and you'd get a brief description if you hovered the mouse over.

Around the 3 or 4th time I found the internet, (was around 8) I was typing in "Simpsons" and hovered over a site promising "simpsons, simpsons and more simpsons" only to be met by 3 blonde women with massive nude tits.

I was horrified and told my parents. Stuck up little prick I was. Dad ripped the piss outta me for weeks after.

SoupyNorman · 16-01-2010 11:08PM

OutlawPete wrote: »

The other reason was to see Drew Barrymore's Playboy pics.

You paid for that?

OutlawPete · 16-01-2010 11:12PM

SoupyNorman wrote: »

You paid for that?

Yeah, I love Drew Barrymore .. what's it to ya feller :mad:

Pic..

Lockstep · 16-01-2010 11:13PM

brummytom wrote: »

Oh chatrooms. God I remember those. Was using them from the age of 10 without a care in the world :eek:

"/me is bored"

Oh lord yes.

When I was 9 I was doing the same thing. We had this really bizarre chat pre-installed on the PC where you had to choose an avatar from a list and the chat was done in comic strip form. I was this weird witch doctor called theflagellant.
I quickly discovered the joys of trolling. I'd log on and speak to someone for half an hour or so, being all lovely and pleasant. Then they'd mention they had kids and I'd be all "OMG U BABY KISSING BUTLICKER" and would log out.
I got a ****load of fun, becoming progressively more obnoxious.
My little brother was around 3 or 4 and told my parents I was saying bad words on the computer. The little bollocks.

Sarn · 16-01-2010 11:16PM

Back in '93 when I started playing MUDs.

It brings me back, I remember when all we had was half a connection made out of hand me down bits and bytes. A connection shared so many times that a simple 10 character response could take 10 seconds. When everything was monochrome and ASCII images were considered impressive. Web pages were unheard of and streaming music or video was but a distant dream. When offering someone your e-mail address was met with a blank stare. Back when children could play on the internet without fear or supervision. 'Twas a simpler time, a time of innocence.

phasers · 16-01-2010 11:16PM

I used to play Tetris on the world's slowest dial up connection... In a way it was good cos it made the tetris really easy

Latchy · 16-01-2010 11:21PM

I went to an one day internetz class about 13 years ago and came out none the wiser for the expierence, thinking I'll never get the hang of this new medium .Then we got dial up at home , slow as fook but I was determined and percivered, in learning all the jargon ie, discovering www was the largest libary in world

Blisterman · 16-01-2010 11:25PM

Late 1995, finding out who shot Mr Burns. I remember trying to watch a video. It taking about an hour to download and resulting in a terrible quality 30 second clip.

It wasn't until August 2002 that i found my true calling on the internet.

jd007 · 16-01-2010 11:32PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

Was in school playing some stupid game.

Then I went home, did the ERRR ERE RER E RE RE RRRRRRR thing (you know dial up sounds) and spent more time playing that stupid game.

Then I realised what else there was on the internet :eek:

Boards.ie?;)

Captain_Generic · 16-01-2010 11:37PM

Blisterman wrote: »

It wasn't until August 2002 that i found my true calling on the internet.

Goatse?

baalthor · 17-01-2010 12:28AM

Frank Spencer wrote: »

Wow flashbacks of extension reels from the phone socket to my PC and then rows over the phoneline being tied up the whole time.

"What if someone's trying to ring me?" was the usual cry.

Still the reality for some of us

I had used email from around 1992 and first got on the web in 94 - just as it was starting up really ...

I sort of remember the first website - it was called "the place" or something - quite obscure.
When I figured out you could type in company names followed by .com, I typed in playboy.com and it worked ! This was in the computer lab of the college where I worked but the pictures didn't look very impressive on the crappy 16-colour monitors.

I remember meeting a guy from college and trying to explain to him what the web was and how it worked . He was an ultra-nerdy computer programmer but had no idea and had never used it ....

Back then lots of people thought they could make a career showing others how to search for information on the web but I guess the Google boys killed those dreams...

**Timbuk2** · 17-01-2010 12:44AM

There's porn on the internet? :eek:

\googles
\faps
\repeats

TouchingVirus · 17-01-2010 12:45AM

I downloaded a Bon Jovi track off Napster, looked up some nekkid wimmins and soon realised dial-up wasn't all it was cracked up to be

Mycroft H · 17-01-2010 01:00AM

Ahhh yes. I remember it well. It was 1995 or '96

Back in the day of IOL and netscape and 14.4kbps and yahoo was the best search engine.

Even the noise of a modem dialing brings it back.......

Also an interesting article on the history of the internet in ireland:

http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/net.80s.html

banquo · 17-01-2010 01:07AM

Our indigo dialup still works.

admiralofthefleet · 17-01-2010 01:09AM

yeah, and i went straight for the jugular. searching for 'jenny mc carty nude' was the first thing i ever did online

krudler · 17-01-2010 01:16AM

It was in a net cafe in 96 or 97, cant remember the exact year, I remember mostly looking up movie trailers and info, I remember legging it down to the same place after school the day the trailer for Episode 1 went online, then using nearly all the half hour i paid for waiting for the fecking thing to load, was worth it though

pity the movie was shyte but the buildup was amazing

Eoin · 17-01-2010 01:48AM

kickoutthejams wrote: »

When I was 9 I was doing the same thing. We had this really bizarre chat pre-installed on the PC where you had to choose an avatar from a list and the chat was done in comic strip form. I was this weird witch doctor called theflagellant.

I think that was Microsoft Comic Chat - did it look like this?

Wow, that's a flashback for me - Comic chat and email was my first experience of the internet. Took me ages to reply to my first email as I was looking in my outbox the whole time.

Agent J · 17-01-2010 01:52AM

1999 was went i was first properly able to access the net.

Esat No Limits. How i remember thee. 30 pound a month for unlimited off peak internet access.

I thought i was in heaven.

o1s1n · 17-01-2010 01:57AM

Agent J wrote: »

1999 was went i was first properly able to access the net.

Esat No Limits. How i remember thee. 30 pound a month for unlimited off peak internet access.

I thought i was in heaven.

So did I. Until the ***** kicked me off for 'overuse'.

:mad:

17-01-2010 02:08AM

My first time would have been mid 1998, my secondary school got a rake of Pentium MMX 166 MHz PCs (old hat by then), with Windows 95. Later on they upgraded all the machines to IE4 with the Active Desktop interface and at that time we had internet access, dual channel ISDN I believe. I remember most of the class sticking to the Doras directory, which was set as the home page, while I knew to type an address into that bar at the top which said "Address" beside it.

When I got internet access at home myself, it was late 1999. I also fell victim to the Esat No Limits bootings in 2001 but I phoned them and questioned their "No Limits" saying it was false advertising. They then let me off the hook!

stovelid · 17-01-2010 02:10AM

Around 1996 - in college.

Mycroft H · 17-01-2010 02:10AM

though in fairness its less then a year since we got broadband. Before that it was 24.6kps dial up.

You could get a cup of tea while waiting for an ebay page to load

kumate_champ07 · 17-01-2010 02:19AM

I must have been around 15, I had heard about it from a few friends and seen it in magazines. I remember being very nervous as I approached her, my fingers were trembling. I took it out and stuck it in her and waited to see what would happen, but suddenly It popped back out, the cd was for a mac and I needed one for windows. got the correct browser installation cd later and then just looked at encarta online nasa and cadburys website

wild_cat · 17-01-2010 02:27AM

It would have been around christmas of 1997, we got a computer for christmas, I have no idea what I looked at or anything, would have been 9 years of age!

Anyone remember that homested page builder?

A short while later I made a page on that and told everyone everyone about it in school. We had a trainee teacher in with us for a week and she didnt believe me, so she asked me for the address.

So I arrived in the next day with the website address for her on a piece of paper, I told her I couldnt get my chat room to work on it. The look on her face was priceless.

friendface · 17-01-2010 02:31AM

I do surely, I was in fifth class. The year was 1997 (could have been '96, not sure) and our school bought one new Gateway PC which sat at the back of the class, and was occasionally turned and students were allowed to play supervised minesweeper

I think we may have used 'teh internets' once in school but I definitely remember our first time using it at home. I used to buy PC magazines every week (before I even had a PC, lol). Finally got our first computer in 1998 and spent all night setting it up in the sitting room. A few weeks later I remember the trouble we had trying to get online. Had tons of AOL discs and IOL and OceanFree CD's. Finally got Oceanfree to work on dialup. Let's just say our first months phonebill had to be delivered in a box.

Atavan-Halen · 17-01-2010 02:35AM

I don't actually remember my first time. Obviously wasn't too special :P

do you remember your first time...

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